Alcohol tes



Api'il 21", 1925. R 161349 I J. WERSHOW ALCOHOL TESTER- Original FiledMarch 2'7. 1923 INVENTOR Reissued Apr. 21, ,1925. 1

UNITED sT r s Re. 16,049 PATENT 1 oFFicE.

JACOB WERSHOW, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

ALCOHOL TESTER.

Original No. 1,481,277, dated January 22, 1924, Serial No. 628,157,filed March 27, 1923. Application for reissue filed February 24, 1925.Serial No. 11,386.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB VVnRsHow,

@citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven 5 and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and .usefulImprovement in Alcohol Testers; and I do hereby declare the follow' ing,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and thecharacters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitutepart of this application, and represent, in I Figure 1, a side View ofan alcohol tester constructed in accordance with my invent10n.

Figure 2, a vert cal sectional View of the same.

whether or not they contain wood alcohol,-

' and the invention consistsin an alcohol tester having certain detailsof construction as will be hereinafter described and particular- I lypointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a wick container 5 of tubularform and adapted to contain a wick 6, the upper end of the wickcontainer being threaded for engagement with a cap 7 which is formed inits lower end with a chamber 8 into which the upper end of the wickextends and in its upper end wit-h a chamber 9 to house a test- 7 ingelement 10 which is mounted in a carrier member, such as plug 11,inserted in a head 12 movably connected with the end of the cap 7 as bya bayonet joint 13. Member 10 -may be of any suitable metal or othermaterial the surfaces of which becomes a reducing agent whensufficiently heated, copper being a well known example, By bending themetal laterally,as shown in the drawings, a large areaof'active reducingsurface.

may be housed in a short space; or this member maybe wire bent in theform of a coil.

This device may correspond substantially in size to a fountain pen, soas to be conveniently carried in the pocket. When a test is to be made,the parts are separated, and the wick lighted, and the testing member 10is heated by the flame until it is in 1. An alcohol-tester, comprising awickcontainer, acap closing the same, and a plug carrying a coil housedwithin said cap.

2. An alcohol tester, comprising a wickcontainer, a cap threadedonto theupper end of the container and formed with upper and lower chambers, atop closing the upper chamber, a plug mounted in said cap, and a coilmounted in said plug and adapted to be housed in the upper end of thecap.-

3. An alcohol tester, comprising a wickcontainer, a cap closing thesame, and a plug carrying a laterally bent metallic tester housed withinsaid cap.

taAn alcohol tester including a wickcon'tainer, a cap closing the sameand a relatively long testing element of metal of the class adapted toserve as a reducing agent when highly heated, said testing element beingremovably housed within the cap.

5. An alcohol tester including a wickcontainer a chambered closure forthe same and a relatively long testing element of metal of the classadapted to serve as a reducing agent when highly heated, said test- .ingelement being removably housed within the chamber, and laterally benttooccupy a relatively short space.

6. An alcohol tester including a Wickcontainer, a cap closing the sameand a relatively long testing element of metal of the class adapted toserve as a reducing agent when highly heated, said testing element being removably housed within the cap, said testing element being securedto a detachable closure for the cap whereby it may be housed within thecap for transportation or exposed for use.

7 An alcohol tester including a Wickcontainer, a chambered closure forthe same, a compact wire coil of metal of the class adapted to serve asa reducing agent when highly h a ed mew?" for 'im bl e p iting saiclwiie coillwibhin said closure so=that it may be housed Within the samefor-transportation or exposed. for use.

8. An alcohol tester including a wickcontainer, a. cap closing the same,:a a ifllatively long testing element of metal of the cla$ adapted toserve as a neduding agent vsure for the cap and a handle for the testing4 element.

.Neyvfiaven, and State of Connecticut, this whe h bs i efi J me v mz xthe testing 'elernent and hOnstitutirfifiwth a clo- Signed at 'NewHaven, in the county of 19 th day of February, A. D. 1925.

